For more than three years, US politicians and
journalists have been using the term "violence" to refer to the war between
US occupation forces and Iraqi resistance groups.

During the first half of 2006, they started using the
term "sectarian violence" to refer to attacks conducted by perpetrators, who
are described as Shi'is (they use the derogatory term Shiite) or Sunnis.

During the second half of 2006, some of them started
wondering whether the war in Iraq is "sectarian violence" or "civil war."

After the Republican defeat in midterm Congressional
elections this year, more voices dared finally to describe the US war in Iraq as
"civil war."

Whether the terms used are violence, sectarian
violence, or civil war, the goal is distracting the American people and the
world from the truth.

What is going on in Iraq right now is neither civil
war nor sectarian violence. The presence of foreign occupiers makes the war
between the occupier and the occupied, between the invader and the invaded.

The US occupation forces have recruited Iraqis to
fight the Iraqi resistance. This is an Iraqization of the war, like what
happened in Vietnam, when the US used south Vietnamese to fight the
resistance (the Viet Kong).

Using collaborators from the invaded population is an
imperialist tactic to decrease casualties of the invading forces but it
never succeeded in crushing the resistance. Lessons from history are
numerous but the neo-con don't read history.

The German occupiers used the Vichy government against
the French resistance. The French imperialist government used Algerian
collaborator army against the Algerian resistance. Israeli imperialists used
Sa'ad Haddad and his army of collaborators in South Lebanon. The US used the
South Vietnamese to fight the Viet Kong resistance. And now the US is using
Shi'i and Kurdish recruits to fight the Iraqi resistance to the US
occupation.

This imperialist tactic never worked in the past and
is not working in Iraq, even Rumsfeld admitted it.

The US-recruited forces took several forms, like army,
police, death squads, and militias. But because they have been recruited by
the occupying forces, they are part of these forces.

As a result, it's neither a civil war, nor a sectarian
violence though majority of US recruits are Shi'is and Kurds, ultimately
fighting on the side of the US occupation forces against the Iraqi
resistance.

What has been going on in Iraq from day one of the
illegal US invasion of Iraq, in March 2003, has been an Iraqi resistance to
the US invasion and occupation.

It is very simple but US politicians and journalists
are still playing dumb. They want to say it is anything but resistance to
the foreign invasion.

The French resisted the German invasion during WWII.
The Vietnamese resisted the US invasion in the 1960s and the 1970s. The
Palestinians have been resisting the Israeli invasion and occupation since
1948, and particularly since 1967.

The danger on Iraq and the United States is
represented by the illegal US invasion and occupation of Iraq, not by the
resistance to the occupation.

In 2003, Iraq did not have weapons of mass
destruction. It didn't have links with Alqaeda (the two official reasons the
Bush administration used to justify its illegal invasion of Iraq).

The whole world now knows that the real reasons were
benefits for the military industry, oil industry and Israel.

The US occupation of Iraq is wrong and illegal.
Correcting it is by ending it, not by inventing new excuses to stay in that
country and fight the war by proxies.

Apparently, the new shift to the term of "civil war"
is another spin to justify staying in Iraq "until victory," which is
apparently dividing the country into better-controlled three mini states:
Kurdish North, Shi'i South, and Sunni Middle.

The battles raging in Baghdad everyday are nothing but
ethnic cleansing to drive Shi'is and Sunnis to specific areas suitable to
the partition.

If Democrats are truly different from Republicans in
Congress, then they should stop the ongoing ethnic cleansing now.

The question is how can they do that?

Simply, the perpetrators are mainly the Shi'i militias
of Badr and Mahdi Army, together with the police death squads of the
Interior Ministry. All of these belong to the US-backed ruling Shi'i
alliance. They are on the US payroll.

The US is in direct control over the Iraqi armed
forces, including those of the Interior Ministry. The US is also in indirect
control over the Shi'i militias because of its backing of the ruling Shi'i
alliance.

The Democratic Congress has to press and scrutinize
the Bush administration to stop the campaign of ethnic cleansing,
perpetrated by the US-backed Shi'i ruling alliance.

Only then, the process of the partition of Iraq can be
stopped. Otherwise, we'll be witnessing just the first few years of sixty
years of global war (as Wolfowitz said once) perpetrated by the US and its
NATO allies to control the planet and its resources.

All indicators show that the US will be the loser in
such "permanent war," as the national debt deepens ($8.7 Trillion right
now), and as the resistance from the invaded nations becomes stronger.

Actually, the US global rivals, such as China and
Russia, will be waiting for the right moment to provide invaded nations with
military support, just like they did in Vietnam, to make sure that the
US-led NATO alliance does not win.

Is this what Americans want? Wars, death, destruction,
and hostility?

If the answer is No, then, ethnic cleansing in Iraq
must be stopped now, before it is too late, when the Shi'i militias and
Interior Ministry death squads no longer listen to US commanders.

What about the purported Sunni groups (Ba'athist
resistance, Alqaeda, Islamic resistance, etc.)? Who's going to control them?
Are they going to stop fighting?

Simple answer:

Resistance by definition is a reaction to the invasion
and occupation of a nation.

When the US occupation of Iraq ends, the resistance
ends too. Period.

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Yesterday, the London-based Arabic newspaper, Al-Quds
Al-Arabi, published a news report about a study conducted by the Iraqi Southern Research Center for Strategic Planning.

The Center study concluded that about 400 Iraqis are killed daily in Baghdad alone. The
killing is sectarian aiming at cleansing East Baghdad from Sunnis and West
Baghdad from Shi'is.

Perpetrators commit their crimes using
car bombs, mortars, motorbikes, bicycles, and guns. They kill in day time
with protection from security forces.

In another article, there are stories
about Shi'i families forced to leave their homes in Sunni areas, and Sunni
families forced to leave their homes in Shi'i areas by militiamen. Despite
their plight, they are better off than the ones who are killed daily to
achieve the goals of this ethnic cleansing campaign.

About fifty families are forced daily to
leave their homes from one area to another. About fifty more families are
forced to leave Baghdad as a result of this campaign of ethnic cleansing.

In addition, extended families and
neighbors exert pressure on men to divorce their wives from another sect.
Thus, many Sunni women have been divorced by their Shi'i husbands, who
usually take the children in their custody. Many Shi'i women are also being
divorced by their Sunni husbands, who keep children in their custody, too.

The article tells some of these stories,
with names of people and their locations.

A third article is about the opportunist
Iraqi exiles, who were used by the Bush-Blair administrations to convince
the public in the US-UK to accept the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

After completing their role, they and
their families are now back in the wealthy London neighborhoods. The article
mentioned names and locations of residence of these Iraqis who helped destroy
their country. These include Iyad Allawi, Ibrahim Al-Ja'afari, Ahmed Chalabi,
Adnan Pajahji, Laith Kubba, and Ali Bin Al-Hussain.

What's going on in Iraq is horrible. The
truth has been shielded from the American people. The corporate media has
been collaborating with Rumsfeld about how good the war was going. They
portrayed the war in Iraq as if it is caused by Alqaeda non-Iraqi fighters.
They disinformed the American and European peoples.

What's happening in Iraq now is neither a
civil war, nor sectarian violence. Rather, it is ethnic cleansing blunt and
ugly. It is part of a plan to partition Iraq into Shi'i, Sunni, and Kurdish
mini states. It is divide and rule, blunt and clear.

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American patriots in government and
outside must find a solution to this dangerous problem of disinformation by
the Bush administration. The anti-war movement, and even so-called Think
Tanks, which have access to funding, must start getting information
independently. They must not depend on the corporate media anymore.

In the past, Al-Jazeerah called for
volunteer translation of Arabic media. There were few responses, which would
not lead to consistent output. There is no alternative to genuine
translation by professional interpreters, which require stable sources of
funding.

I call on Democrats in Congress to do the
job. A Congressional media offices is needed as soon as possible to solve
this problem.

I extend the same call to anti-war groups
and members of parliaments in Europe to do the same. There has been a
campaign of disinformation about the war in Iraq. It's high time to know the
truth.

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On daily basis, US and other Western corporate media
report on few attacks in Iraq, which usually result in killing less than
fifty Iraqis. This has been a disinformation effort to make the war sound
like violence between Shi'is and Sunnis.

However, reports from the UN, US military commanders, and Iraqi
officials have showed that more than one hundreds Iraqis are killed every day.

Apparently, corporate media have been participant in a
concerted effort to cover up the horrors of the US War in Iraq, and make it
sound less intense than what it is in reality.

Sometimes, the Western corporate media do not
report any war news at all from Iraq or Afghanistan. They even
systematically call daily fighting "violence" to make it sound like
"domestic violence," not war.

Regarding the purported Iraqi Shi'i-Sunni civil war:

It is inaccurate to describe the war in Iraq as if it
is fought between Muslim Shi'is and Muslim Sunnis, as the US and other
Western corporate media
have been trying hard to do.

It is more accurate to describe it as fought between
US-led forces and Iraqi resistance fighters. Even killing civilians is part
of the war, as the evidence earlier demonstrated that Interior Ministry
death squads and British soldiers were caught either targeting or attempting
to target civilians to make the war appear as if it is between Shi'is and
Sunnis.

This purported Shi'i-Sunni civil war in Iraq aims at
distracting Iraqis and dividing their country into three regions, in
preparation for a final partition and dismemberment of Iraq. Previous
statements of Iraqi elected officials pointed fingers to death squads of the
Interior Ministry.

Moreover, on September 19, 2005, two British soldiers
were arrested by Iraqi police for driving a car bomb in a Basra street. They
were freed by British forces before being interrogated by Iraqi police. This
incident sheds some light on who might be behind car bomb explosions in
Iraq.